Late to the Party

okedoke

Originally uploaded by Jezlyn26.

Noticed something strange about the logo when I was having a late afternoon snack… If you need a hint, click on the picture for the Flickr note.

Silhouetted Sentinel

Originally uploaded by Jezlyn26.

Yesterday was my first day out with my new Sony H9. Got to walk around the Chicago Botanic Garden, which I hadn’t been to in quite a while. The trip was a bit short due to a bit of a late arrival and a hubby that didn’t feel 100%, but I think I got some decent “test shots”.

Here’s one of my faves from the batch. The rest are at Flickr.

Earlier today I got linked to an article on louisgray.com talking about how Engadget posts too many updates, causing people to unsubscribe to their feed.  This article was spurred by Ryan Block’s post on his personal blog asking, “Is Engadget’s daily wall-to-wall coverage too much of a good thing?”  Perhaps I’m just too much of a gadget junkie, but I don’t understand the question. *smirk*

Seriously, though, I guess the question can be asked of several blogs/RSS feeds that update too often.  However, with the “river of news” method of reading RSS feeds in Google Reader and other aggregators, how difficult is it to just scroll on by?  I do admit that I do not scour hundreds of feeds in order to stay on the bleeding edge of all things tech or whatever for my blog, so maybe my POV is not one that applies to this question.  But when someone commented on Ryan Block’s blog post and said it takes him a half-hour to plow through 60 stories, I was truly puzzled.  Does it take you that long to scan the headline and realize you’re not interested in the article?  Perhaps my uber-skimming causes me to overlook some articles I’d otherwise be interested in and would perhaps blog about or share in my Google Reader shared links, but often if a story is interesting enough, I’ll see it pop up in other RSS feeds and I’ll eventually read it.  Again, I’m not a professional blogger, so YMMV.

I do admit to checking Engadget and my other favorite feeds several times a day, so I guess that’s another way to break down the reading into more manageable chunks.  Maybe it’s just me, but I don’t think 60 posts a day is overly much for a gadget blog that has high traffic and a sizeable editorial staff.  I guess I also have a rather focused set of categories of gadget tech that I’m interested in, so if Engadget goes on a tear and reports about all these LCD TVs or monitors that were announced in a day, I’ll probably scroll past all of those entries.  A lot of the silly USB toy posts will get quickly skimmed over.  Though I’m interested in new cell phones, probably 80% – 90% of the stories posted about a new, thin cell phone with generic specs will get skipped over.  River of news is a lot more efficient than clicking on each article headline to preview the article text, e-mailbox-style.  Maybe that’s why that guy was taking so long to view a mere 60 articles. *shrug*  Maybe you need to have a short attention span in order to get through prolific feeds??

Oh well.  It depends on your level of attention, and need for the information that these various feeds are pushing out.  I’d have to say, though, that if you’re a gadget blogger and don’t read feeds like Engadget, you’d miss a lot of stuff.  I’d recommend reading your feeds in a river-of-news style so it’s easier to get through them.  I guess if any one feed is too prolific, just unsubscribe.  It’s okay.  Really!

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Well, I think it’s great because it makes me feel better about not getting tons of great shots with every photo shoot that I do… *smirk*

Twelve significant photographs in any one year is a good crop.

- Ansel Adams

This is the first time I’ve ever read that quote.  I saw it in someone’s sig on the Sony Talk forums at DPReview.  I’m glad to know it now.

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Hey, Kids!

I’m so excited; a representative of WOMWorld commented on my last post about the N800 and offered to send me an eval unit for a couple weeks.  It’s getting shipped out tomorrow.  It would be nice if it gets here by the weekend, but it will probably arrive at the beginning of next week.

I need your help.  Since I will only have a couple weeks with the device once I receive it, I need to figure out what cool applications I should try on the device.  Also, if you have any tips, or blogs, or anything else related to the N800, please post links in the comments.  I want to do my researching now while I’m waiting for the device to arrive so I don’t waste time futzing around with stuff.

Thanks in advance for any cool links/info!

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